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Now, let's go through a little lightning round through his claims about how science is now a form of religion.

Now, science itself says, no, no, no, we're not a religion.

We are the opposite of religion. Religion takes things on faith, but we ask the world.

We perform an experiment. We don't take anything on faith. We're objective.

What goes missing here is that this objectivity is based on, is itself a meta,

it's based on metaphysical assumptions that are unprovable, just like any religion.

Among them, objectivity, that there's a world outside of ourselves that is separate from our asking of the questions

that our questions don't change the reality that we ask about.

I'm sorry, but I tried to understand what the hell that last word salad meant.

And I'm going to leave it to you to rewind and give it a go. DM me if you find an answer.

That said, metaphysical assumptions that can't be proven.

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote, every man takes the limits of his own fuel division for the limits of the world,

which is effectively my biggest problem with conspiraturalists in general.

They pretend that experts outside of their own domain don't know what they're doing.

Hey, Joe Rogan. Good science is the opposite of metaphysics.

And if you really don't believe that, then Charles, don't ever take an antibiotic,

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